Quarta-feira, Outubro 04, 2006

Hey guys,
I just got back from the most relaxing week ever. I took five days off work to go to a cruise. My friends from odf were all going and they talked me into it. I was not going at all, but hey it was such a good deal. I mean, $250 for five days?! I would've spent at least 50 bucks in the supermarket! So I decided to go with them and take a time off life. I kinda needed that. Here at Disney you do some repetitive work...unless you're a character of course. Then you actually have new stories to tell everyday..but at Mission Space you just push buttons and it can get very boring and drive you nuts. I was on the verge of going insane and so are my friends who did not get to travel. haha
Anyway, it all started on Monday the 25th. Woke up early and took a van to Tampa. I only found out who was going that morning. I knew my friends Priscila, Ana and her roommate Dea, Rebeca and Juliane were going and also Rudy my ex-coordinator and his friend Jean. I guess Rudy said smth about the cruise to the Studios odf people (for those who don't know Disney, there are 4 parks. I work at Epcot and there's also this park called MGM-Studios) and some girls simply invited themselves to come along. Two of Priscila's roommates, a friend of Rebeca's and this other girl who lives here at Vista. It would had been better without them cause we definitely did not get along that well. The worst part was that I had to share a room with one of those girls that had nothing to do with us and our cabin was far from everyone else's. That sucked. Anyhow, even when I was alone I enjoyed myself. I enjoyed every single minute being away from work, just relaxing at the pool deck, tanning or even sleeping. No seriously, that one of the best things: the bed. Oh my, what a dream bed! Pillows were fluffy, nice sheets and cover...I slept like a baby! The other great thing about the cruise was the food. There was food 24/7. Any time you wanted food you could have it...and all included, which means you could eat as much as you wanted without having to pay a single penny!!! There was a sushi bar from 5 to 8h30, pizza 24h, and buffets for breakfast, lunch, dinner, late dinner. Besides the buffet, there was the restaurant for dinner. It was fancy and you had to go a little more dressed up. We had fancy food every night! I tried foie gras and escargot (see french friends? i tried your food!haha). I also had Indian food, Caribbean...man, i can't even remember..it was so much food! It was definitely worth the price. Imagine spending money to go every day to an expensive restaurant? Oh and I had lots of shrimps and lobster. Love seafood!
The ship was called Inspiration and it was big! I got lost everyday in that place. Never knew which floor to stop or which way to go. It had a casino, two restaurants, buffet area, 3 bars, 3 pools, theater, stores..enfin, lots of stuff!
One of the nights on the cruise was formal. There was free drinks at the theater to introduce the captain who was at the table next to us! It was funny to see our group: eleven dressed up girls and two guys. Everybody was looking at us and we had like three or four people commenting how pretty we looked :)
The first two days we spent sailing at the sea. Just eating, tanning, sleeping. Oh the good life! On the thrid day we arrived at Grand Cayman Islands. We went swimming with rays. It was fun. The rays were huge and I found them disgusting, ugly and jelly!haha The water was beautiful though. Very clear and blue. We spent the fourth day in Cozumel in Mexico. Aww, I wish Daniel would had been there! First things we see when we get to the port? Tequila, sombreros and some mexican beer!haha I had a Sol. I really like that beer. We rented a jeep and drove around the island. Half of the group (as pessoas x como nossa chalana diria!haha) did nothing but complain...nothing was good for them so we decided to leave them with one jeep, take the other and do our own thing. We finally went shopping and then Priscila and I sat down in a bar for margaritas and a shot of tequila...afterall, we were in Mexico eh!!
I kind of lost the girlson the last day, so I went to the pool deck and stayed there all day long...tanning! You guys wouldn't believe how tanned I am! Tô neeeeeeeeeeegra!haha
On the last we had to wake up absolutely early to go through immigration to return to the States. Burocracia sempre aqui né?! I woke up at 5 in the morning, came back from Tampa and went straight to work until 10 pm. I was wrecked by the end of the day!
It's terrible to be back. Five days slacking...and now back to work! :/
This is my only day off of the week...then I'm gonna work 8 days straight until my next day off on the 12th. Then I'm gonna go to Tampa for the John Mayer concert and Busch Gardens next day. Can't hardly wait!!

I made a slide show with some pictures from the cruise. Check it out:

http://www.rockyou.com/show_my_gallery.php?instanceid=40241682

Saudade de todos.

Cris

Cris Harumi às 12:38 AM.

Quarta-feira, Agosto 23, 2006

Hey everyone!

So the last time I wrote I was still working at outdoor foods, my american friends were still here, I hadn't been sick...
Ok, so here we go with the news.
I moved to Mission Space which is one of the most popular attractions at Disney. Yes, people have died in there and many guests get sick everyday...but it's their fault if they don't listen to the several warnings we have in there. It is a simulator of a mission to Mars.You sit down inside a capsule which we call the X2 Deep shuttle and if you ride the original orange version you feel the G force on you, the same sensation astronauts feel. However if you choose the green version you do not spin and feel nothing..they created that version for wussies who can't handle the wild thing!haha
I trained for 3 days and had my assessment test. I was very nervous! We had to work in all 14 positions and the assessment trainer observing, taking notes and asking questions; then we had an oral and a written test. I passed easily but of course I have trouble here and there at work. It's kinda hard when you're in this position called launch cause you're responsible for everything in the bay, especially when things go wrong...you gotta know what the problem is and solve it quickly. Sometimes we have protein spills in the bay (that's how we call vomit!) so we gotta call custodials, sometimes ask to restage the guests who are waiting in the ready room, speel to guests inside the bay...ahhh, so much pressure!
Other than that, it's fine. I enjoy the other positions. The job is a lot easier than at ODF (except when you're scheduled to work in the kitchen!) but the people at ODF are much nicer. Whenever I can I go back to the base to visit them or go to the odf table to eat with them at the cafeteria!
Right on my first day of work by myself I felt sick. I didn't go to work and the next day I woke up in so much pain that my roommate had to call 911 and I was taken to the ER in an ambulance. I went through exams all morning and they found out I had a kidney stone. I took an antibiotic and carry a pain medicine everywhere with me. I still have the stone and have to drink lots of liquids to get rid of it. I've talked to people who have it and they say it is just like that..and if the stone is small you gotta just wait till it comes out. And the crises come and go every once in a while..they say it's the worst pain you can feel after birth pain. Gah! I experienced that..it was the very worst physical pain I had ever felt in my life.
I'm much better now and working again! Btw, I've been having very long shifts...like 10 to 14 hours per day! I get home wrecked!! I don't even feel like going out to clubs anymore..
I miss home a lot. I miss Bishop's a lot too. If I had one wish I would ask for the whole gang reunited again..having Tim Horton's, playing silly songs, and having fun.
Btw, remember that movie they shot at BU? It's gonna premiere here the first week of September I guess. I saw one scene in the trailer where they have a party in a fancy place.. recognized McGreer..I remember all the lights they put up in one the rooms there..I could see from Norton!

I haven't had much time to write your emails back...I'm so sorry! But I do appreciate each and every one of you who sends out emails.
Julia (there's a French girl who works with me who has the same name!), Angie, Daniel, Alex (I know I did not reply that first email, but then again I was not replying to anyone..don't be upset!): thanks a bunch for your news!

xxx
Cris

Cris Harumi às 4:32 PM.

Domingo, Julho 30, 2006

Hello, salut, olá, hola, konnichiwa!
How's everyone been doing?!

I want to start this email sending a big shout out to Céline. I got home last night to find a letter and a postcard from her sitting on the kitchen counter. It made me extremely happy to know that even working at the camp you have not forgiven me or our fun times at BU!
I promise as soon as I have time to go buy postcards I will send you one!


You guys can send me text messages to my cell phone for free at http://www.cingularme.com/do/public
My cell number is 407 325-9321



So lots of things have happened. I'm gonna divide this email in episodes so it's easier to remember and to write.


kitchen burn

So there I went to work for the very first time as a kitchen runner. I had heard that it was great..and it was indeed. If they put in to work in the kitchen everyday I might hadn't left ODF. But anyways, all you do is wait for one of the four carts that sell pretzels (and one of them sells turkey leg too) call the radio, then you put the pretzels on the trays, trays in the oven, wait five minutes, get the trays out of the oven, place them in a bag, take them to the cart and place them in the display. That's it. And when nobody calls you just sit around the cafeteria and do nothing. Lots of fun!
The only problem was that the first time I went to get the pretzels out of the tray and into the bag I accidently touched the tray and burned myself. I didn't even notice when it happened..later on I saw my skin dark and there was a blister which popped up in the next hour. That was one week ago and it still looks bad and it hurts a little..it's getting better though. Anyhow, I'm gonna have this scar forever in my arm...kind of a reminder of my days at ODF! Like all my co-workers said, everyone at ODF has several scars..so, welcome to ODF!

guest issues

A few days after I was scheduled to go again to the kitchen and I went to work extremely happy. I prefer to go to the kitchen and get burn then go out to the carts and be a vendor!
When I got there they told me that they had pulled me to Future nut and I was gonna have to help Ming, this chinese boy, cause he couldn't understand the guests and the guests couldn't understand him. He reminds me a lot of Billy cause nobody can understand a damn word of what the kid says!
So there I went to one of the busiest carts in the park and one of the I hate the most, to spend the day trying to communicate with a chinese. It was ok until the end of the shift. It seems that when shit happens it comes all at once right.
Our nut machine hadn't been working properly along the day but we managed to make the nuts but when we were about to make the last batch it broke down. The sugar and the glaze and the water and the nuts were burning...and it was a thick, sticky, dark thing..disgusting!
So I had to dump it in the tray to clean up the machine. So I cleaned it up ok, but the problem then was the tray! The sticky bruned thing was stuck in the tray so I bolied some water in the machine to dump in the tray...and it was spilling all over as the freaking machine is to make nuts not boil water to dump in a tray! So I spent like an hour tryin gto clean up that freaking thing (and the chinese boy couldn't understand I needed hot water on it and he kept throwing cold water, trying to help me, but blowing all the effort of having boiling water). It was already a stressful enough event for the day, but like I said, it comes all at once.
So it was 7h30 and we had to close the cart, the line was growing bigger and bigger, so I went there to close the line. While I was there I sent like 3 or 4 guests away cause we were about to close. So the radio starts ringing, and Ming never answers the radio cause he can't understand what they say and he cannot make himself be understood, so I reached for the radio, talked to the backdock (who called us to start closing procedures), hung up the radio. When I finished with the radio, there were 3 black ladies with 2 kids behind me. So I was like: I'm sorry the line is closed and these are the last guests. So on lady goes: but there's no one behind us, let US be the last guests. So I said I was sorry but couldn't do that. Then she said her kids were fainting (they were actually playing and one of them was asking me about an attraction..so no, they were ok and couldn't care less for the drinks she was asking me for), so I told her she could cross the bridge and go to the world showcase carts, cause that part of the park was open until 9 while Future World, where we were, closed at 7. She was not very happy and asked me for specific directions which I gave to her and they all left. As she left she turned back and started yelling at me: THIS PARK IS OPEN UNTIL 9 SO YOU HAVE TO SERVE ME UNTIL 9! And then I tried to explain again that only the world showcase was open until 9 but the lady wouldn't allow me to speak and the more I tried to argue the more she yelled and pointed her finger at my face. And while that was going on I had the radio ringing non stop with the stocker calling me and then backdock again...so I told them that there were 3 ladies yelling bc they wanted a freakin drink and they wouldn't walk 2 minutes to the other part of the park. So I was fed up and said: youknow what? what do you want? I'm gonna give you the drinks!
I just wanted to get rid of those stupid people..and she said, better yet, yelled: I DON'T WANT ANYTHING ANYMORE! YOU SHOULD'VE GIVEN ME THE DRINKS WAY BEFORE!
Excuuuuuuuse me? That lady was insane...I shouldn't have given her anything..I mean, I had sent guests away before her and they were polite and perfectly understood I had to close the cart. If I were to give anything to anybody it would had been to those guests and not her! And you wonder, if her children were actually fainting she wouldn't be there arguing with me and then refusing the free drinks.
She asked for the name of the location, she got my name and Ming's and she said we were bad cast members and she was gonna complain and yadda yadda. i was like: ok, this cart is future nut (which she asked like 5 times cause the brainless couldn't understand that was the name of the cart), my name is cristina, and you go to guest relations to complain. And she was trying to scary me: I WILL complain about you! And I leaned on the counter, all cool, and said: go ahead!
They left and I was so nervous I was shaking. I wanted to have cursed them and yelled and walked away but couldn't do so..I had to keep cool and just listen to them yelling and not letting me speak. I then burst out in tears and I couldn't stop crying for half an hour! I couldn't keep on closing the cart so I called the manager to go there and have him talk to me. Patrick went there and he was extremely nice..I told him all the situation and he said I was a good cast member cause he had seen me out there and there would be no problem at all. Now I have this guest issue in my file, but oh well, at least my conscious is free.


nut cart

The next day I went to work at the show nut cart where they usually leave on person during the day as it's not busy and at 4pm they send someone else to help as it gets busy. So there I was, making nuts the entire day and usually we make enough to store some for the night when we're too busy to make nuts...but I was so busy and people were buying so much nuts that I was going crazy by myself! I had to seel sodas, beer, ice cream, give change, make nuts..ahhhhh! The coordinator went there and when I asked him if they were sending someone else cause I wouldn't be able to stay there by myself he said he didn't think so..grrr!
There were two people in the next cart doing NOTHING! So one of them who thank God happened to be my friend Joana went there to help. That's what the coordinator should've done, he should've sent her over but as he did not she came without any consent!ehe
If that was not enough they forgot about my break. I stood there for almost 7 hours without any break (usually it's 4 hours max!). If I hadn't called base they would've left me there for 10 and a half hours with no break!!!!
I got pissed and talked to the manager about that..she then decided to send someone to help me. Ahhh what a day! After a bad day, another bad day? It only happens here..haha

call sick

The next day I decided to call in sick cause they had scheduled me to open the Land cart which is the worst along with Fut Nut. So I simply called in and spent the day at the pool.
The next day I was gonna work but I actually got sick. I had a bad stomachache and there was nobody home to take care of me. So I went to the pool cause there were some people there and if I felt sick I could ask for help. So, I laid there under the shadow and slept...for 2 hours! I woke up feeling brand new and then some friends arrived and I stayed there with them until 7pm!

Roomieless
I've been roomieless these past days cause my brazilian roommate's boyfriend is here in Orlando and she's sleeping in the hotel with him. Oooh I envy her so much. I wish I had people visiting me too :/

last days
So Wed and Thu were my last days working at ODF. They were ok. I was a kitchen runner and my last day was at Mission Space cart. Funny cause I'm moving to Mission Space, the attraction.
I'm gonna go there today to ride it before I start working there and then I'm gonna get the costumes and all. I'll take pictures with my new costume later to send you!

PI with a french touch
Last Thursday I went to Pleasure Island, more known by cast members as PI, where we get in for free from Mon to Thu. I had met this french guy from Lille at a French party here at Vista Way, where I live. We had talked a little bit and then we met again at PI. The guy was nice but too young for me..18 years old! Ahhhh, not again! That reminds me of Montreal..
So yeah, I was finally with a French guy, cute green eyes and blond hair..but Tanguy and Xavier, you both are still my fave French!

Days off

I had Friday off and I am going to be off until Monday! I love not having to work for 4 days!
I went to the beach on Friday with some friends from work: Joana from Brazil, Nancy from Mexico and Corinna from North Carolina. We drove to Clearwater western Florida. It was nice. Calm beach, no waves, clear water (yes, the name says it all), white sand. It was extremely hot though! We stayed suntanning for 2 hours and I am completely dark..I look almost african!hahah
We went to eat at McDonald's and after a while we decided to go back to the beach. As soon as we put our feet on the sand we saw some black clouds approaching. We knew it was gonna rain soon but we thought we still had half an hour before it started pouring down. Buuuuuut, you can never trust Florida's weather. 10 seconds later, yes TEN seconds, the wind was very strong and all the umbrellas started flying straight to the sea. It was a chaos. The sand hitting everybody as well as the umbrellas. My friend was hit in the head and almost fainted. It was just crazy. In portuguese we call that Noroeste, crazy strong wind that comes out of nowhere! So we rushed to the car and stayed there waiting all the cars leave so we could move our car. There was a huge traffic jam in Tampa on the way back, so it took double of the normal time to go back..I got home exhausted but I still managed to go to the ODF softball game...just to watch though. I sat there with my brazilian co-workers, drinking smirnoff ice and chatting..until 2h30 in the morning!!!
I went to sleep at 3h30 and woke up on Saturday at 7h20! My friend from ODF, Dustin (you guys should meet him, he's the nicest, most peaceful person and happiest person I've ever met. He never called in, he's always extending at work, always smiling...I just can't believe how pure and good this boy from Alabama can be!), he came with Sean, another co-worker, to pick me up so we could go to Busch Gardens. We met Corinna and went all together and met up with Ana, Diego and Dea there.
I love Busch Gardens. It's probably the best park here in Florida. I went to pretty much all the rollercoasters..about 6 or 7. I went twice on the new one called Sheikra. It has two falls of 90 degrees. The second time I went in the front row..it was insane! It goes up up up and then it stops and you can see eevrything from up there and then it goes forward a little bit more and you see the trail and the endless fall! Look at the description:
SheiKra carries riders up 200 feet at 45 degrees, then hurtles them 70 mph back toward the ground at a 90-degree angle. It is the first coaster of its kind in the Americas and only the third in the world.

SheiKra is the first dive coaster to incorporate an Immelmann loop, a water feature, and a second 90-degree 138-foot drop through an underground tunnel. SheiKra also includes a 360-degree climbing carousel. 3,188 feet of steel track offers a total ride time of just over three minutes.

You guys watch the video..it gives you an idea of how good that coaster is!
http://www.buschgardens.com/buschgardens/fla/sheikra.aspx

We spent the whole day at the park and got home at almost 1 am. It was great. I love hanging oout with Dustin and Corinna, cause they are my favorite people and they are leaving in less than two weeks. :( Aww, I'm gonna miss them soooo much.

So I guess that's all news i have. Oh, I start my Mission Space training on Tuesday at 6h45 am! So it's gonna be a tiring busy week for me.

Cris Harumi às 9:37 PM.

Terça-feira, Julho 18, 2006

Hey everybody, what's up?
Some of you were already asking where I have been and I'm glad for that. It's good to know you guys still think about me, at least every now and then!hehe
So life's been the same. Tough work and tired body. Lately they've been locating me almost everyday in ice cream which is good...there's this one cart that I got used working at, so I like it when they assign me there. I've been working 10 hours for the last 3 days and today I'm finally off! The day before yesterday was absolutely crazy. They assigned me to go to this cart called Future Nut where you make...nuts! However you also have sodas, ice cream, beer and chips to sell! Plus it's one of the busiest carts in the park, it has the deepest ice cream cart (which means I can't reach the bottom even with a stool step!) and they put only one person to work there (even though it's clearly a two people cart). So yeah, my day was insane. I forgot everything that day...I forgot to take the freaking nuts with me! My stocker was terrible and I kept having problems with that the entire day...so much that a manager had to be called to take care of the situation. Oh, it was funny (now it's funny but at the moment I was desperate!) when I opened up the cart this whole group of teenagers from some Spanish speaking country (I'm guessing it was Argentina) came and made this huge line..it was the biggest line I'd ever had! They all came to buy water and they finihsed it up in 5 minutes! I mean, I had 2 cases of water there that lasts at least half of the day and it was gone in 5 minutes!!! Good thing that one of the stockers saw the big line (at first he thought something was going on in the area cause there were too many people there!) and he came to help me. And the worst part about those groups of teens who can't speak english is that two of them give money to one third person that can say w-a-t-e-r and this person goes "one water here" and hands me a 5 dollar bill, then you get the water, give the change, and the same person goes "another water" and hands me a 20 dollars bill and so on...
If that was not enough, most of them had 100 or 50 dollar bills and I was running not only out of water but also of change! How desperating that sounds eh? I was there for 5 minutes and I was already tired and needed a break to breathe!haha
Well, onto happier news, last week most of the internationals received an email telling us that there was a possibility of moving to another role in attractions instead of quick service food and beverage. Of course I replied as soon as I read it and the answer came three days ago. I went to talk to the cast services manager and she told me that I had got to move to attractions, then she had a meeting and announced the names of the people that were also leaving..it was me, two other brazilians and two other girls that I don't know. But the other brazilians said they don't wanna leave ODF, so I guess it's gonna be only me. Some of the guys from the ODF team didn't like it cause they wanted me to stay (aww JR was so nice..he came to my cart that day to say he was gonna miss me! and no, there's nothing going on here..he's got a fiancée and all, but some of them are just nice as that and that's the only bad thing about leaving ODF), but some of the girls were very happy with the news and I could notice that..like Arlyn always treated me indifferently and when she found out I was leaving she came to talk to me to say it would be good for me and she wished me the best..hahah yeah, right. She does wish me the best if it's far away from the ODF base and their pretty boys Nick and Andrew. Bah, I can't believe how north americans can be stupid..I'm sorry if the brazilians are pretty and you are a bunch of blond fat asses..
Well, that's about it with the news.
I haven't been to too many parties, but last week we decided to look for one. It was hilarious. Two friends came over to my place and the three of us plus my roommate started drinking this big bottle of smirnoff ice with absolut. Then we went to the convenience store to buy another bottle, we had it and headed to this party we heard they were having at 801..when we got there there was no party whatsoever..so we went to a Marcelo's place, but by that point Michelle, my roommate, was completely drunk..the foour of us were laughing for no reason and it was a lot of fun. Then Michelle asked MArcelo for money and we went out to buy another bottle of smirnoff..when we came back Javier (oh yeah, I almost forgot! I have t o tell you about the day I met Javier!), my mexican friend, was there and called me to go look for parties. We walked around the whole place and we finally found a French party!haha There were too many weird people there..and almost all the guys were gay.Like when we got there Michelle was like "look Cris that guy in black is cute", then JAvier made the same comment, so we were looking at the guy and he was obviously gay! So by the end of the party we left Javier there talking to him (the next day we found out nothing happened :/)hehe
I also met a French guy called Robin from Lille. He was trying to teach me the propper pronounciation of their "r" again..haha Sorry Xavier, but I just can't get it right!haha
This day I went to sleep at 4 am and woke up at 9 to start work at 10! Last Sunday I went to the House of Blues for the second time. I like it there cause it plays electronic music as well...it's not just commercial hip hop all the time like Motion.
Yesterday I went to Jungle Jim's but it's sooo different from 2003. When I first came here I enjoyed that place..all the brazilians used to go there and sing in the karaoke machine..but now there are too many weird people, too many boricuas, and too much latin music for me. It was Joana's first time there and she disliked it very much...so I decided to take a walk with her around crossroads (it's a place with shops and dining places where Jungle Jim's is located) and we ended up at TGI Friday's. We sat at the bar and met Darren, the nicest bartender ever! We had one strawberry margarita each...then he asked us if we wanted another one..I was kinda like nahh I can't spend much money..and then Darren said if we had another one he would give us a free shot. He not only gave us the shot (it was grenadine with some pinapple alcoholic beverage..i dunno what it was but it was a double shot and it was delicious!) but he also charged for only two margaritas which means we had 2 margaritas and 2 shots plus a nice talk for free!haha

Speaking of margaritas, that's how I met Javier, one of the sweetest mexicans ever (I haven't forgotten you Daniel and my dear Male!). This one day I was at my park, Epcot (some of you told me you don't quite understand when I talk about Disney and its parks..if you wanna know more go to http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/parks/parkOverview?id=ParkOverviewPage), I had just got off work and I met Bernardo and Joana. We had free ice cream, then had lunch at the Sunshine Seasons..we had 3 salmons and we paid only for one (that's the good thing about having friends in f&b!). Then Joana went to work and Bernardo and I met Débora and Javier..and that day I finally met him. He is from Mexico City and the sweetest and most huggable mexican gay ! He learned how to speak Portuguese in one month..and I was impressed. His portuguese is really good..and he understands pretty much everything we say! We went to the mexican pavillion that day and had many frozen margaritas for free and churros and mexican beer!

Ahh it's good to meet people here but I miss you a lot. I would give anything for a freezing cold night (here's too hot and humid!!!), with a coat, scarf, gloves on, and my Funny Caribou friends walking in the snow heading to Tim Horton's for a nice mocca..

So, enough nostalgy. Gotta go sweeties.
Love you very much.

Cris

Tanguy, I got your email with the pics you uploaded but I could not download them..I dunno what happened to the site!
Tomoya, it was good talking to you that day. I hope things get better in Japan.
Xavier, you made my day with those few lines even if offline at msn. I was thinking about you and when I turned on the computer there you were!
Pedroca, Carol, Vy, Fê, quero nosso time brazuca reunido de novo!Odeio que cada um tá num canto!
Thais, pronto amor, aí notícias! E as suas? Me manda tb né..
Jubão, soube que a peça foi sensacional. Filmou? Eu quero MUITO ver!

Cris Harumi às 12:41 PM.

Terça-feira, Julho 04, 2006

Hello you all,

First off, I wanna start apologizing for not answering your emails individually...but I do appreciate your writing to me and all. So the shout outs go first in this email:
Céline, thank you so much for writing me offline and doing all you can to keep in touch. I know you've been really busy. And you were wrong about France..congrats!
Lachlan, you have been busy too eh? It's goood to see you're working hard! One of these days I was looking at my pictures on the wall and I was like "aww, I miss Lachlan.." haha
Daniel, sorry I was ausente on msn!hehe I wish I had talked to you..
Carol, outras coisas aconteceram dps do email q te mandei..preciso te mandar outro. Meu, q saudade de poder ir no Mack e te ver!!!

So not much has happened since the last email sent. I still dislike my job and now for some other reasons that I'd rather not tell in an email...but to sum things up, gossip sucks.
So my days off went pretty smooth. I took the free time to go to Walmart, sleep and go to the pool.
Saturday I watched the game at a friend's place with smth like 10 brazilians and 10 french. It was crazy. Oh remember we told you there's a myth that French people don't shower? So, yeah, brazilians were talking about that cause some French guys around me were stinky...it was disgusting us praying for him not to lift his arms up!hahahah
So it was devastating to see France win again. But at least it was fair..Brazil hasn't been playing well from the beginning. Everybody was really upset after the game so we all decided to go to Florida mall relieve the stress!haha I went there by car (thank God cause by bus it takes one and a half hour!) with my friend's friend who lives here. We went straight to Hollister! I couldn't help myself..I had to buy two blouses and a shorts. :P
Besides that, I went out at night on Thursday: PI day. We all went to Pleasure Island and my roommate got drunk...so drunk that I had to carry her home and put her to bed. That reminded me of that cold night in Lennox when Tanguy and I had to carry Tomoya home!hahah I'd give anything to live that again!
Well, my roomie was pretty drunk but I guess everybody was a little wasted! We had Absolut and Red Bull here at my place before going out and then we had tequila and beer at PI.:P
Then on Sunday we went to House of Blues. Women drink for free until midnight...so we drank! And this time my friend Adriane drank a little bit too much. hehe I had some friends to take her back cause she couldn't even recognize her own friends.
The main reason for this email though is to tell you all about yesterday! And yes, it envolves more alcohol!hahaah
Some friends and I were at the pool and we decided to go to Epcot and walk around World Showcase and have one drink in each country. One of our friends, Marcelo, even decided to call in to go with us!
So we started in Mexico with some frozen margaritas. The Mexican was extremely nice (gotta love those mexicans!) and he was the only one who gave us the margaritas for free when found out we were international cast members just like him. Then we drank it (I was told each cup has 3 shots of tequila plus some other drink in there..woah!) while we were in the Rio del Tiempo ride. Then we went to Norway. We talked to a nice girl over there who explained about the typical drink in her country but they didn't have it there so we skipped Norway.
We then got to China. We took pictures with Mulan and then we had a chinese wine which was very sweet and tasted like Skittles!
After China, it was the German pavillion and of course we had to have a beer! It was a bit too bitter for me though.
Then we headed to Italy where we had this delicious dessert red wine. The cast member even gave us some chocolate to try with the wine. After Italy it's the American Adventures pavillion but since we drink aaaaaaaand serve Bud all the time it was no fun to have it, so simply skipped the US as fast as we could!haha
Then we got to Japan where we had sake. I taught my friends to say konnichiwa to the japanese cast member! I talked to her a little bit about Japan..I told her I had relatives living there and stuff. After that, Morocco! We took a picture with Aladdin (absolutely gay! he was hitting on our friend..he was like "are you a their prince?" and gave him a little wink!haha) and had a beer from Morocco.
Then we arrived in France! We got there like "salut, ça va?!"haha and the guy started talking in french to us..but Marcelo couldn't understand anything so we preferred to stick with english. We talked to the guy about the world cup and then we had a kir royal.
UK was the next pavillion. There we met a guy who was still earning his ears (that's what cast member say when they're knew) and he was from Liverpool. We had a pint there...oh my that was good.
Then the last but not least: Canada! My friends were like "Cris, c'mon you should know their typical drink!" but all I could think of was beer...so I went to talk to two canadians at the store. I told them I had studied at Bishop's and stuff and the girl said she almost went there!hehe So she told me that their drink is beer too, nothing too fancy!haha So we had a Labbat Blue and that was it...the end of our tour around the world.
We took a picture with each drink in each country and then one picture with the empty glasses in front of the Epcot ball. haha I'm gonna upload the pictures for you :)

I gotta go back to work again today. I'm working til 1h30 am! :/
Take care and love you,

Cris

Cris Harumi às 1:09 PM.

Terça-feira, Junho 27, 2006

Hey guys!

How are you all doing?
I've been pretty tired. I've been working 8 to 10 hours everyday. My next day off is Friday...and then I'll have like mini vacations!haha I'm off until Monday!
Last week was rough. I barely worked! I went out with the guys from work on Sunday and got back home pretty late so me, Joana and Livia - my co-workers fro Brazil as well - decided to call in. I had Tuesday and wed off. On Wed I went out with the odf (outdoor foods) team again to a club downtown Orlando. That was fun...we went to this club called Chillers where there are 4 floors and cheap drinks! The bad thing was that on Thursday I felt really sick at work. The worst part is that they think I'm the drunk girl at work now which is so unfair! I mean, ok I did went out and had a few drinks, but I felt good enough to wake up in the morning and go to work..the thing is that they put at the Land cart which is on the other side of the park. So I had to push a cart all by myself under the sun and then I was asked to pull up the tent (which I couldn't cause it was to high for me!)..so the result was Cris sweating like a pig and completely dehydrated...then I felt weak and almost passed out. They always make a big deal when you feel sick at work cause they're afraid of having cast members sueing them...so they called security, 911, put me in a wheelchair, took me backstage and convinced me to go back home. I was already feeling fine as I had taken water but anyways they didn't let me go back to work. So I went home, slept, and then went to the ESPN bar to watch Brazil vc Japan. Tomoya, I told you we would win...with our reserve team!haha Cicinho played...I just love that guy...him and Kaka used to play in my team Sao Paulo!
And today we won again...I couldn't watch the game, but I was told it was pretty good. I worked today from 10am to 6h30pm at the ice cream cart..but they got on my nerves today cause they're supposed to send a reliever after 4 hours so you can take a break. So ok..I stood there for almost 6 hours with no break. I was asking stockers to get me someone so I could go on my break but that's how they scheduled..and then I was supposed to clock out at 6h30 so we usually go back to base 10 minutes earlier..but today the guy who took over arrived at 6h40! Grrrr!
Another interesting fact: florida weather. It's freaking hot here!! 40 degrees, the sun brightly shining and when you least expect the rain pours down on your head. Yesterday I was all by myself at the nut cart, so ok, i pulled down the tent and it was fine...until we had a freaking windy storm! The tent hit me in the back and all the water accumulated on it fell on my shoes..so I had my feet wet until the end of the shift! And then it was lightning and the power in the cart went off. Thank God this guy who was taking over had arrived early an helped to deal with the situation. Today there was a storm again and I got my feet wet again...:/
Btw, right now I think it's about to rain out there...I can hear the bolts and all!Weee...fun..not!

Yesterday I bought a cell phone here. It's probably arriving in two days. It kinda sucks cause we're never at home and it's hard to find people..so a cell phone is gonna be useful!

So my French friends, next Saturday we're playing against each other! TOday I was at the cafeteria on my break when France game was on. So there were like 15 french watching it and yelling allez! regarde! and stuff like that...and I was like goooo Spain!hahaha
So anyway, I know it's gonna be a tough match, but hopefully we'll win! :P

So yeah, that's it. Hope you guys are doing good wherever you are.

Love,

Cris

Cris Harumi às 9:47 PM.

Quarta-feira, Junho 21, 2006

Hey guys!
How's everyone doing? I hope good.
I'm sorry I haven't written in a while. Celine's got the excuse of not having internet. Well, I do have internet but I just do not have time. Now I remember why I didn't write emails last time I was here! I started work on Monday and I worked until Sunday something like 10 hours every day!!! I was a complete wreck on Sunday...but even so I some guys from work called me to go out and me and the other brazilian girls went out with them to a pub with live music...pretty much like the Lion! Ahhh I miss Acoustic Tuesdays with Tanguy!

(Right now I'm in my room at Vista Way and I can hear lots of Mexicans shouting MEXICO!!! outside...I think Mexico must have won some match eh!haha Good for them!)

So I had training on job all week long and on Sunday was my very first day all by myself. I had to open aaand close the cart alone...well a guy hlped me to open and then a stocker helped to close..sort of..
i met a family from Montreal and the lady had gone to BU! It was so much fun talking to them...she told e she was in Africa once and she met someone from BU as well!
I also talked to three ladies in Spanish..haha They were having a hard time to speak english so I just answered in Spanish and they were like all excited and then I said I could not speak Spanish but I could speak Portuñol!ahaha They said I already had a good Spanish...they were amazed I could understand everything they said "mira, puedes entiender todo!" hahahah that was fun.
I had a hard time in the beginning cause the card swiper was not working and I had a family waiting to use their snack plan and apparently it was not working but it had taken 7 snacks out of their card! I was alone AND to complete the picture my nextel was not working..so the guest had to go over to another cart to tell someone I was having problems. That was incredibly hard and I was really nervous! Then closing the cart was hard too..I had some guests complaining they were inline and that I could not close it..guests can be really stupid sometimes..they don't care if I have a time to close or not!
Other than that, everything is fine. I trained in various different carts and still there are many more that I don't know! I already did the popcorn cart, the nuts, turkey leg, pretzel, ice cream...it's definitely not the best job..i think i must have gone nuts when i think of my last job as a character..that was good! But at least I'm not in any kitchen...

Last night I went to this club called Jelly Rolls. They have two guys piano duelling. You can name any song, write in a piece of paper and they'll choose the papers and play it...it's lots of fun! I think you guys would absolutely LOVE this place! The thing is you have to be over 21 to go to this bar. But I think Daniel would go wild with the pianos..
Yesterday I was off so I went to the Animal Kingdom to ride Expedition Everest, their latest attraction which I hadn't ridden yet. It was very good! You have an encounter with Yeti and the ride is lots of fun...it goes backwards and stuff. No loopings like any other rollercoaster at Disney but fun to ride anyways. After that I went to the Magic Kingdom to check all te brazilians working there...we have our ways to get free food!haha So I got an ice cream at one cart, then a cheeseburger and fries and coke at Peco's, funnel cake at this other cart..yummy!haha

Oooh talking about yummy, I was supposed to have gone to this restaurant in Norway pavillion the day before yesterday but I got locked INSIDE the apartment! Can you believe that?
I dunno what happened my door was stuck and nobody could open it. My friends had a reservation for 8h20 and I should had caught the 7h45 bus but I couldn't..I was stuck at home until 10h!!! I had to call security, wait for them..when they finally showed up they had to break into my apartment. Then I had to wait for someone from maintainance to come to fix the door...that was stressful!

So yeah there's a lot going on and too little time to write all about it...but I think summed up pretty much everything.
Lachlan, where have u been? Working a lot?
Tomoya, I'm worried about you. What did you wanna talk abou that day? Write me if u need me!
Daniel, sorry I couldn't talk to you the other day...I was away.
Celine, I hope you get you net back soon! My mom told me she you sent me smth..I'm so curious to see!
Tanguy, thanks a bunch for the pictures. I loved them...I laughed a lot with some of them..and that was neat that picture of Tomoya with the Disney ad! Very thoughtful of you!
Xavier, I got your music. I was surprised you still remember me cause I havent'heard from you in a long while! I liked the music...I wish you guys toured here in Orlando!haha

Friends from Brasil, I watched only the first game live. I went to my friend's apt...it was boooring, but at least we won..The second game, well, I was working, but I wtched it cause the guys from work recorded it. I won't be able to watch Brasil vs Japan :( but i'll try to get my break to watch at leat a bit of it!

So thanks everyone who have written me. Sorry I cannot get back to you individually..

beijos, bisous, kisses!

Cris

Cris Harumi às 1:35 PM.

Sexta-feira, Junho 09, 2006

Hello everybody,

Here I am writing directly from Disney!
So, let me tell you all about my trip from the beginning.

I had a farewell get together last Friday with a bunch of dear friends. Around 15 people came to my apartment and we ordered pizzas and laughed a lot. I know I'm gonna miss that crazy bunch a lot...again! Virginia and Rodrigo, the guy I'm sorta with (hun, I'm sorry you're might be reading this but i have no idea how to define us!haha), slept at my place and then they left the next day. It was hard to say goodbye especially to them. I mean, Virginia's always been my partner in crime and it sucks not to have her coming here...cause she should! The only reason she's not coming it's because damn HR made some stupid mistake on her file and it says she has a negative rehire status which is totally unbased as she has a document from her manager saying she's got a positive rehire status. And as for Rodrigo...he was supposed to be here now however he decided in the last minute not to do the interview for the visa and now he may come in July or August..and I am counting the minutes to see him!
I left on Saturday night to Miami with 3 other friends: Adriane, Thais and Paula. We had plans to live together in the same apartment as the international recruitment told us if we arrived together we had great chances of staying together. Nonetheless we ended up not arriving together although in the same flight! The thing is the flight departed from Sao Paulo half an hour late then we stopped at the immigration in Miami and it took forever!!! Adriane and Thais boarded in time to catch the conexion flight but Paula and I did not. So we had to wait 4 hours for the next flight to Orlando.
We arrived here at Vista Way, the Disney housing complex I'm living in, to find out Paula was going to the Treehouse Villas and Thais was already there and I was staying at Vista along with Adriane. The bad thing is Adriane and I got different apartments. We live pretty close to one another but in different apartments which sucks. Right now I'm living in the second floor, the top floor, of building 3 in a 2-bedroom apartment. All the apartments here are double rooms and as for now I'm lucky to have a double suite for myself. We'll have to wait at least until the end of the month to see they're gonna put more girls in this apartment. It'd be perfect if we stayed as we are, two suites for two people! I mean, much better than last time when I had to live in a 4-bedroom apartment with 7 other girls! Last time I lived at Chatham Square though which is, in my opinion, the nicest complex of all 4.
On Sunday, the day I arrived, I didn't do much. I just went to the Walmart to buy some food and that was about it. On Monday we took the picture and got our housing id and had a meeting with Price management, the company that takes care of the complexes here, about fire, alcohol, reasons to be terminated and stuff like that. On Tuesday we had a meeting with the lady that takes care of the visa thing to talk about our H2B visa, which for temporary workers and to which the embassy came up with several restrictions. For ex, I found out I'm gonna work at Epcot so the only places I'm allowed to work are Epcot, Disney-MGM Studios and the water parks. We also had a meeting with our area coordinators that day to get our schedules.
On Wednesday we had a classic Disney class that all cast members must take called Traditions. We had to wear formal outfits to go to Disney University and have that oh-so-boring class. At least this year they cut it down to 4 hours, cause in my year it was way over 4 hours. It was early and everybody was sleepy!haha
Oh on Monday I also went to PI! Or for those who have never been to WDW it's Pleasure Island located downtown Disney where there are many clubs and where cast members have free entrance from Monday thru Thrusday. It was fun to go to Motion, the hip hop club, and feel that vibe again. I went there last night too..it was ok, but the bad thing is that i'm still not used to having guys grabbing me behing my back and rubbing their uh tra-la-la against me. I have fun dancing with my friends but I'm still not used to doing that with complete strangers! BU people, remember I used to tell you how things were worse here in Florida? You may have seen some of the grabbin and rubbing in clubs in Montreal but it's nothing compared to what happens at Motion!hahaha
As I'm on the fun subject, we had a pool party on Tuesday. Free pizza and sodas. Minnie and Daisy visit. Music. It was not bad but if we had more brazilians here it'd been more fun!haha

Break: Pest control crew just knocked my door, so I'll leave them to do their job here and go sun tan at the pool. Btw, it's extremely hot here in Florida...between 30 and 33 degrees and they say it's gonna get hotter! gaaaaah! I prefer the -20 of Lennoxville!

So an hour later I'm back. Sweating like a pig and more tanned!haha
Price management just left a note here saying that we're gonna receive two roommates on Sunday. Oh no, the plan to be alone in a double bedroom failed. I'm gonna try to at least convince the person moving in here to switch with Adriane...hard task cause this apartment is very good.

Here is my address and phone number:

13501 Meadow Creek Drive Apt #312 Orlando, FL 32821

001 (407) 560-2280 ext. 1312

I'm gonna try to buy a cell phone asap. As soon as I have the number I'll let you know.

Onto work, yesterday I had my first day of training. It was food and beverage basics class. Pretty boring. It could had been more fun if the trainers had talked more. The first part of the class was fine as they did a lot of talking, but the second part was in the computer. The brought some laptops and we had to complete some online courses about guests with disabilities, food storage, dishes cleaning, safety...some important stuff but that I will most definitely not remember. I would much rather had a booklet with that information and someone explaining step by step like my character perfomer training. Well, I'm gonna have one more day of training on Monday in my specific area: outdoor foods. I'm gonna be responsible for stocking the goods in the carts and then selling them. So yeah, if you go to Epcot from June to November you can buy popcorn, ice cream, nuts, water or whatever with me in a cart. The costume is ugly just like all the Disney costumes...but it's not the ugliest. It's a red polo shirt with khaki (sp?) shorts, a black belt, and white socks and shoes.

I'm off today and this weekend (pretty rare to be off exactly during the weekend! Here we have crazy schedules, like I can have a day off in a tuesday or have no day off whatsoever!) so I'm gonna enjoy it doing some shopping on Saturday as my friend wants to go buy a laptop and on Sunday I wanna go to Epcot cause it's the last day of the garden festival. I went there the day before yesterday just to take a quick look. It's beautiful there. Bushes cut in characters formats like Snow White, Bambi, Stitch, Donald and Daisy, there are flowers everywhere...pretty pretty pretty! I need to go there to take some pictures! the only thing I did when I went there on Wednesday was to go to Soarin for the first time! When I was here there was no such attraction..it's a simulator that makes you fly over California scenarios. It's quite amazing. You all different landscapes like a canion, a beach, an orange crop, a mountain with people skiing, the golden gate...and you finish your flight over Disneyland watching the fireworks up close. And the coolest thing is that you can smell each place! Like when you're over the orange crop you can smell orange scent, you can smell the pine trees in the ski place and it feels a bit colder too!
On Tuesday I went to the Magic kingdom at night just to watch my favorite fireworks: Wishes. I couldn't help myself and cried. It's so beautiful! And I knew all the speech!haha My favorite part is when Jiminy Cricket says: "...and the best part is you'll never run out of wishes cause they're shining deep down inside of you, cause that, my friends, is where magic lives!" I love love love it!
Then I went to Phillarmagic which a 3d show with Donald Duck. In the beginning it shows Donald sleeping around Mickey's orchestra instruments and he is told not to put Mickey's sorcerer hat on to which he desobeys. Then he goes through several Disney movies chasing the hat. He meets Ariel, Jasmine and Alladdin, Peter Pan, Lion King...and it's so much fun. Like when he is in Beauty and the Beast they play "Be our guest" and they show all sorts of food and the place smells like pie! And when he's in Fantasia there are some water buckets that are thrown and we feel water sprinkling on us!
I cried both time...watching Wishes and during the Alladdin part in Phillarmagic when they sing "A Whole New World". Celine, i'm sure you'd love it!

So that's pretty much it for now.
i'n trying to update quite often my photo album.
Here's the first Disney Summer album:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cris_witter/album?.dir=c68ere2

The other Disney albums are from winter 2003/4.

Miss you guys very much. BU friends: your pictures are already up on my wall. :)

Cris

Cris Harumi às 5:06 PM.

Sexta-feira, Maio 05, 2006

Hoje era pra eu ter ido pra Niagara Falls com uns brasileros aqui. Bom, eu não fazia questão, mas não queria ficar mais um dia sozinha eeeee o bus era esquema cassino, apenas 5 dólares. No final, brasileiro tudo enrolado, acabamos nao indo. só eu cheguei aqui embaixo no horário 8h30 sharp! O cara que ia veio e disse que ia precisar resolver a viagem dele pra Montreal e West Canada...aí esperei a outra mulher...e ela nao apareceu!!
Fiquei uma hra esperando e resolvi ir dormir de novo! Aí desci aqui uma 11h30 e eles estavam aqui prontos pra sair..mas não pra Niagara. Bah um saco andar com gt velha..velhos me perseguem!haha O cara é um tiozão médico da polícia que já viajou o mundo todo e a tiazona é uma religiosa que estudava inglês em Vancoouver. A gt saiu tbm com uma menina que veio fazer curso em Vancouver uns 3 anos atrás e resolveu voltar..agora ela mora há 2 anos lá e só gosta de lá. Andamos até o Annex, a parte residencial onde mta gt da U of T mora..super bonito o lugar. Continuamos até a Casa Loma, Bata Shoe e Royal Ontario Museums...e não entramos em nada!!!haha ahhh nem..pagar pra entrar num rola! e eu já conheço tudo por dentro...exceto o Bata Shoe, mas não pago pra ver sapato!haha
Aí fiz uma parada no Pizza Pizza e comi Canadian Eh! A minha pizza preferida...pegava sempre lá no Gaiter Grill! Aí voltei agora e vou esperar a Heidi vir aqui..let'see como vai ser..
Continuando o email, ontem esperei a Heidi por meia hora...canadenses tbm se atrasam! Ah, a Heidi é uma amiga da internet..back in 98 qdo existia um message board dos Hanson, eu fiquei amiga da Ana, uma brasileira que morava nos EUA e que por sua vez era amiga da Heidi..aí conheci um monte de Hanson fans pela net e hj temos um grupinho de amigas pelo mundo. A gt se fala mto raramente agora e uma norueguesa que mantém o message board. Aí ontem finalmente conheci a Heidi...um amor de pessoa! Toda indie, com franjinha, cabelo dark black e óclitchos pretos. Demos uma volta por downtown e dps ela me levou pra jantar num restaurante vietnamita. Ela experimentou sopa de duck e eu comi um shredded chicken on fried rice. Hmmm..delicious! E a maioria dos pratos lá custa tipo 6 dólares! Tomei tbm um milk shake de morango com tapioca! Eu não sabia que aquelas bolinhas escuras nas bebidas orientais era tapioca!!! Aqui eles têm bubble shops que vendem chás e bebidinhas com essas bolinhas de tapioca..
Hoje de manhã foi um inferno pq uma inglesa dos inferno chegou no quarto ontem de noite...com uma filha!!! Uma criança de uns 5 anos que mais parecia o demoniozinho! A porcaria da criança gritava, subia nas camas, não parava de falar com aquele sotaque inglês!!! E eu querendo dormir atéeee a hora de dar check out...e quem disse que consegui?! Fiquei na cama até as 10 e daí fui me aprontar pra dar check out. Fui pra CN Tower, andei pelo Harbour Front e dps passei a tarde inteira sem ter o que fazer no Eaton. Virei e revirei aquele shopping...e mesmo sem espaço na mala comprei mais umas coisinhas.
Agora estou aqui no hostel usando o wireless free pela última vez e criando coragem pra enfrentar aeroporto e malas e check in e hooooras de vôo. God help me.
Amanhã....casa!

bjos
Cris

ps: Bishop's friends, I know I should've written in English again, but when I realized I had already half of the email in Portuguese!hehe I hope you guys can at least practise your portuguese :P I have a video for you that I recorded at the CN tower...please get your butts on msn so I can send you!!!

Cris Harumi às 7:20 PM.

Quarta-feira, Maio 03, 2006

Olá pessoas,

Não escrevo desde semana passada..esses dias têm sido punk!!! A semana de despedidas foi umas das mais tristes que eu já vi!!! Terça teve despedida do Tanguy no Lion. Não tinha mta gt até pq estávamos ainda em semana de prova. A minha última tinha sido na 2a de francês...eu poderia até ter ficado mais lá no Lion, mas não consegui. Eu não consigo disfarçar qdo estou chateada...aí me acabei em lágrimas qdo tive que dizer adeus ao Tanguy.Na 4a o Chris da França se foi tbm...e assim, ao longo da semana, cada um foi-se indo...uns viajando, outros de volta pra casa. E o campus ficando cada vez nais vazio...no auge das semanas de prova o calor fez com que td mundo ficasse estirado na grama, estudando ou não...e o campus ficava mais cheio que nunca! Só que a medida que o povo ia terminando as provas, o pessoal ia deixando a Bishop's. Na 4a fomos fazer compras no mall pela última vez, 5a arrumei as malas e 6a fomos eu, Céline, Pedro, Carol, Vy, Rubens, Daniel e Xavier até North Hatley onde o professor Brown mora. A cidade é mto bonitinha mas looonge. Pedr disse que seria 1h30 de caminhada, mas acabou sendo 3h!!! 14 km andados dps chegamos mortos...fizemos um pic nic e jogamos um jogo de cartas lá da Celine chamado uno. Na volta resolvemos pegar um taxi mas o Pedro e a Celine quiseram voltar a pé...eu hein! Meu pé já estava com bolha e o Xavier querendo me matar pq eu ele não queria ir mas eu que blackmailed him...ahhh mas era verdade..era o último dia juntos!!
Enfim, apesar de cansativo, foi divertido. No final do dia estávamos tds queimados de sol (meu rosto tá descascando, é mole?!) e o Pedroca e a Celine mais ainda! Aí passamos no Provigo e SAQ e compramos bebidinhas pra de noite. Nos reunimos no quarto do Pedro pela última vez...só a elite de sempre...os brasileiros, com exceção da Fê que já tinha ido pra NY, Xavier, Tomoya, Daniel e Celine. Bebemos Brahma! A garrafa aqui é tão mais bonitinha...
E bebemos Smirnoff Ice de pomme verte. Rodd you were right, it's freaking good. Depois td mundo se reuniu pra ir comer o último poutine o Village Grec. Foi uma galeeeera querida se despedir de mim e da Carol. Vários franceses!hehe Na volta paramos no Quad e foi aquele abraça abraça e eu manteigona não aguentei, claro. Choreeeeeeeei. E choreeeei. E choreeeeei mais um pouco.
Acabei passando minha última noite de Bishop's com o Xavier. Chorei my heart out. Não só por causa da despedida, mas por várias coisas...e ele como sempre me ouviu e me acalmou e me ajudou e me fez prometer um monte de coisa pra ele pra me ajudar!hehe Ahhh como eu vou sentir saudade dele...um dos melhores amigos que já tive na vida!
Dia seguinte foi correr pra casa de manhã, pegar as coisas da laundry que eu tinha esquecido lá embaixo, fechar as malas, fazer check out e ir almoçar.
Check in. Queeem vem fazer?! Claro, Alex! Não me livro dele nem no último dia! Ele ouviu que eu precisava de alguém pra fazer check out pelo rádio e veio de propósito! Pediu pra assinar o caderno dele, ficou me perguntando pra onde eu ia, o que ia fazer, chorou...sim, ele chorou! E eu lá..ok, so see you someday. E ele td comovido: you mean? you wanna see me someday again?Ah caralho, na verdade não, mas tava querendo ser educada!haha Não tive como mentir e ficou no maybe mesmo. Ele me deu um abraço cheio de choro e sei lá...deu até dó, mas eu nunca vou conseguir confiar nele apesar de eu ter passado mto tempo (eu diria mais, ter perdido meu tempo) com ele no 1o semestre.
No almoço mais despedidas...das francesas, do Lachlan...ahhh aparentemente eu prometi ao Lachlan que voltaria pro Canada pra jogar hockey com ele!hahah Ahhh pelo menos um canadense que eu vou sentir mta falta!! E ele ainda me prometeu que vai fazer a vida do Alex mais difícil semestre que vem, por mim!haha
Depois do almoço (sim, com mais choro!) Pedro, Xaxa, Deborah e Celine foram pegar minhas malas do Norton pra levar pro Mack. Aí esperamos o taxi e partimos. Mas antes...C-H-O-R-O! Tomoya, Daniel, Pedro, Celine, Vy, Xavier, Marie...antes de entrar no taxi, um abraço apertadinho em cada um e eu estava inchada de tanta lágrima. Ah e surpresa!!!! Xavier chorando! Ele é daquele tipo de menino que não chora...do tipo eu faço artes marciais, sou baixista e macho. haha Dps que já tinha me despedido dele e estava abraçando o Tomoya vi a carinha dele cheia de lágrima...ahhhh, foi a melhor surpresa da minha vida! Só eu tive o privilégio de ver Xavier chorar na minha despedida :)

E eu vou escrever essa parte em inglês pq quero mandar pros meus amigos da Bishop's tbm.
So I came all the way from Lennox to Montreal crying. One lady in the bus was staring at me, cause I couldn't stop my tears. I cried listening to Gunther...how sick is that?!haha
We arrived at Vitor's place and I listened to the Funny Caribous' cd and...cried a little bit more! Then we met his French friends (nice guys but smoked too much and spoke French too much as well...no seriously, I think I got used to Xavier and Tanguy speaking good English...those guys' English was terrible! I could understand them better when they were speaking French!) and we went out to a pub called Les deux pierrots or smth like that. I got too drunk and I was too upset for not having my Bishop's friends around...I couldn't stop thinking about Florian's party...Virginia told me she was going to the last party there. So I was a bit bummed.
The next day was beautiful again. Sunny and warm. We went for a pic nic at Mount Royal park. It was really nice. They had the tam tam with groups playing tambourined all over the place and weird people walking around. A guy paiting, a guy playing the flute, another one climbing up trees, people smoking weed everywhere, gothics, an old guy wearing tight shorts and a weird vest...you could find absolutely everything there! Then we stopped at a pub to watch the hockey game Montreal vs Carolina for the tenth time (when I was having the French exam the professor was listening to the radio and updating the score on the blackboard...unbelievable!). I had a delicious Piña Colada and was not really thaaat interested in the game. :P Then we went to have dinner at 3 Amigos, a mexican restaurant. Each taco was 50 cents!haaha And it was good.The cheapest dinner I've ever had at a nice place! Everybody went home super tired. Vitor and I went to one of the French guy's place and spent the night there chatting (sort of, cause I was more listening to them speaking French than anything else) and drinking.
On Monday Carol and I strolled along St Catherine. Gotta love that street :) When we got back Vitor had left a note about a bbq they were having at Vinicius', another brazilian. There were the French guys again and the brazilian girlfriend of one of them. Then some other brazilians showed up and by the end of the night there were more brazilians speaking portuguese and the french people watching!hahaha That was different! Then the cute guy and another one started complaining smth in French...bla bla mais le portugais bla bla...
And I was like, hey...you've been listening to portuguese for so long you should know some stuff...at least we understand a little when you speak french!!! And the guy was like, yeah yeah...but it's hard! How do you say bonjour?! I've been with brazilians for 8 months and I dunno how to say bonjour in portuguese! So I taught him bom dia, oi, olá...hehe One thing that one of them said a lot was caralho! haha It was hilarious cause he kept on saying that in some occasions instead of damn!haha
The next day we left around noon to the airport. We met Celine, Julia and Lucie there. It was great to see them for the last time...they went to eat and I boarded. I came all the eay from Montreal to Toronto crying again...bah, terrible.
Btw, thing started all wrong at the airport in Montreal. The check in guy said the limit was 23kg per bag however Brazil is an exception to the rule and we are allowed 32kg! It's in the website and all companied are like that...the guy said that I would have to pay if it was over 23kg anyway. One was 20 kg and then other one was 26kg! So I asked him if I could take some stuff out anf put in my hand luggage. He was all rude and said leave the bag let's see...after a while he said: ok, you know that I love cappuccino? I really love cappuccino. The bastard wanted me to buy him a capuccino!!! So I was like ok..I checked in and never returned with his cappuccino!!!
In Toronto I found out that I had to pay 2 dollars to get the kart...and surprise surprise...no coins! So i put a 10 dollar bill and it kept spitting it out. So a nice guy came and gave me 2 dollars and wished me a good day! That was sweet..he saved my life!
I was sooo fed up with the lugagge that I decided to store it at the airport. It was expensive buuut...better than carry it around Toronto.
I took the shuttle and came here to the hostel walking with my hand lugagge. Not great but not that bad. The only bad thing was that it kept getting stuck in those trails in the middle of the street for those trolebus!
I met some brazilians last night here at the hostel. One is a doctor, one lady was studying English in Vancouver and is already fed up in T.O., the other guy was also studying English in Vancouver, and I met this girl who was studying at McGill and who is also from USP. What were the odds?! We started talking and we knew the same people..she is also friends with Vitor and the other brazilians at Concordia, she knows the French guys that I had just met!haha We talked from 7 until 11 pm! She left to Brazil today and the other brazilians were more like loners...so I had to be by myself today. I walked around...a lot! I visited the U of T (it's weird but there are lots of students still having classes there...many people lying on the grass studying just like at BU, Queen's Park, the old and new city hall, Eaton Centre, took the ferry to one of the islands. I stopped at this first island...but it's freaking boring!!! If you ever take the ferry, go to Centreville...I went there last time I took the ferry and it's way nicer!!!
Today I met some other brazilians here...there are 3 working here at the hostel! I was at the Burger king and I heard a couple speaking portuguese! Jesus, brazilians are everywhere!!!
I have two more days here in Toronto. I still love this city. It's great just to walk around downtown. I love Yonge and Queen St...there are lots to do here but the thing is you need money to do them! I'm so freaking broken! It sucks. I cannot go to the attractions without money...so it's kinda boring to be alone with no money to visit attractions...oh well :/ Friday I'm off to Brazil. Love you all, miss you all.

Beijos, bisous, kisses..

Cris

Cris Harumi às 10:27 PM.

Sábado, Abril 22, 2006

Essa semana me chega um email bombástico do consulado dizendo que não antecipa mais entrevista! Desespero total!
Falei com a Disney, liguei pro consulado e naaaaaada.
Acho que a preocupação era tanta que me fez mal. Na 4a feira, acordei fui tomar banho e, do nada, meu estômago começou a doer. Comecei a passar tão mal que tive que sair do chuveiro no meio do banho. Passei das 11 até às 2 da tarde vomitando e me contorcendo de dor na cama. Aí dormi e acordei as 4 da tarde, super fraca, mas melhor. Engraçado que eu não tinha nem o que vomitar no estômago. A última coisa que tinha comi foi um macarrão na janta anterior...
Enfim, aí Tomoya ligou pra gente ir tomar sol na grama. Peguei uma salada to go no Dewie's e ficamos ali deitados num cobertor por hooooras. Tem feito uns dias lindos, ensolarados, sem nuvem nenhuma e calooor. Bom, calor aqui...entre 15 e 20 graus. E eu já nem gosto desse calor de 20 graus..já começo a suar! Nem sei como vai ser ter que me acostumar com um MEGA calor de novo!
Bom, a luta e agonia com o consulado continuou até 6a. Depois de ficar por horas a fio no site do consulado tentando achar uma desistência, adquirir uma dor absurda no braço, e estar a ponto de largar mão de tudo, consegui uma vaga pro dia 24 de maio!!! Weeee!
Agora é só rezar pra realmente conseguir o visto e ir...nem creio que verei a Ju, agora casada! E vou com bixos cast members e veteranos! Que diferente! Espero que a Disney esteja conseguindo agendar entrevistas pra todo mundo que ainda tá na mão!!!



6a teve despedida da Fernanda, a carioquinha do nosso brazilian team aqui na Bishop's. Ela fez um jantarzinho delicious na casa dela, que é off campus e dps uma festinha basiquetes só pra se despedir do povo pq ela tá indo embora amanhã. Ela vai pra NY ficar com o namorado por lá...se deus quiser ela ainda vai me visitar na Disney!
Ai que triste esse clima de despedida...4a que vem uma porrada de gt já se vai, incluindo o Tanguy, Chris...ai, que dor no coração ter que me despedir desses franceses! Acho que vamos jantar em Sherbrooke e dps despedida no Lion. Nãaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaao! Não quero!
Que coisa mais desagradável essa coisa de despedida! Já tô até vendo o meu drama later on...SAUDADE é uma palavra que me persegue!

Segunda agora tenho minha última prova de francês. Esse fds estudarei e dps de 2a passarei o resto da semana me despedindo de amigos.

Cris Harumi às 3:48 AM.

Terça-feira, Abril 18, 2006

Uuuufa! Depois da prova de psicologia de hoje me sinto muito mais leve!
Hoje de manhã (às 9 da manhã!!! Uma prova às 9 é mto cedo pra mim!! Ainda mais pq só consegui dormir às 4h30 da manhã!) fiz essa final que era a mais difícil...a que tinha mais coisa pra estudar pelo menos...a matéria do semestre todo! Quase fiquei louca estudando as psychological diseases! Mas all in all, valeu a pena. Aprendi bastante e acho psicologia uma matéria fascinante...e o professor era um querido...velhinho com Scottish accent :)
Vamos começar da semana passada...
No último e-mail eu tinha dito que estava indo pra apresentação do coral da Bishop's. Os ingressos se esgotaram e o meu amigo francês Tanguy, que faz parte do coral, guardou um pra mim. How lovely. Foram os melhores 5 dólares gastos! O coral cantou músicas de filmes e foi absurdamente lindo. Só achei que tinha gente demais no coral...e All You Need is Love não ficou mto bom com aquele monte de menina de voz aguda. Mas de resto...foi BRILHANTE!
O programa foi o seguinte:
O Fortuna
-La Wally
-Song of Bernadette
-Seasons of Love
-I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter
-Down in the River to Pray
-Sister
-Moon River
-Cell Block Tango
-My Girl
-Ain't No Moutain High Enough
-O Happy Day
-Let the River Run
-Bohemian Rhapsody
-King Herod's Song
-Simon Zealotes
-Chain of Fools
-Hallelujah, I love her so
-Hit the Road Jack
-Try a Little Tenderness
-Son of a Preacher Man
-Blackbird
-All You Need is Love
-Border Song
-You Can't Always Get What You Want
-Speak, Lord

Amei ao cubo que teve Ain't no mountain high enough...eu simplesmente AMO a cena que a Susan Sarandon canta essa música com os filhos em Stepmom!!!
Ah, e Can't Always get what you want...me lembra Hanson no show do Rio! Cover dos Stones mto boaaaa!
A apresentação foi quase perfeita...até falei pro Tanguy, só achei que faltou Tiny Dancer! Cena clássica aquela do ônibus em Almost Famous!
O Tanguy gravou a apresentação e agora ouço over and over and over...

Continuando no tópico músical, 3a teve a última apresentação no Lion. Dessa vez todos tocaram...Tanguy, Tomoya, Daniel e..Xavier! Nunca achei que ele fosse tocar lá um dia..Ah, e teve participação do Sergio em Labamba, do Ha, do Florian e uma alemã lá que eu não faço idéia do nome em All you need is love.
Foi adorável. Mas eu morri de vergonha quando eles cantaram Oi Bunda/Bunda de Saudade (uma composição deles com vários palavrões em português...e eu juro que nunca ensinei nada com más intenções!) e o Tanguy olhava pra gente e apontava. Ó céus! O bom é que ninguém entende mesmo...apesar dele ter feito toda uma encenação explicando sobre bunda!hahaha

O resto da semana foi uma correria! Na 3a eu fui pra última aula de Intro Landscape and Cultural Geo e descobri que teria que refazer meu trabalho TODO! Ela já tinha avisado e dado as coordenadas pra começar a fazer a 1a parte do take home final exam que consistia em pegar 3 artigos e relacionar com 3 capítulos diferente do livro. Eu adiantei pra poder estudar psicologia mais sossegada nos outros dias, maaaaas na 3a ela avisa que só aceita artigos de 2006!!!! Baaah...tive que correr de artigos (e que ódio que td artigo que vc precisa tem q pagar nos sites dos jornais!) e reescrever..por sorte, achei artigos que tinham alguma relação com o que eu já tinha escrito, aí dei uma remodelada e c'est ça!
Aí tive que começar a 2a parte do trabalho que era responder 3 perguntas...o único porém é que pra cada coisa escrita precisava ser uma página single spaced, ou seja, 6 páginas com umas 500 palavras cada! Quase morri...mas terminei na 5a!
Na 6a e toooodo o final de semana passei estudando psicologia. Enquanto Pedroca, Carol, Fê, Tomoya e Xavier aproveitaram pra ir pra T.O. na páscoa, eu e Vy estudamos..hehe
Ahhh, mas pelo menos não perdemos os eventos de fim de ano.
6a teve churras que na verdade foram só algumas salsichas, mas foi divertido. Tava solzão e uns 15 graus...e estava realmente calor! Eu fico pensando...mas no Brasil 15 graus é friiiio e aqui eu acostumei já e sinto calor com essa temperatura!
Comemos, compramos camiseta da Buisa (que pra mim seeempre é grande e nunca ninguém pensa em fazer uma baby look e nem um x small!hehe), tiramos fotos e Tanguy sempre com seu violão. Ele tocou Collide em homenagem ao Lachlan...adoooro!
Sábado foi a última balada internacional organizada pela Buisa no Maysen. Foi mto mto mto bom!!! Tocou de tudo...sempre as músicas latinas, hip hop, eletronic e rock! Pois é...Xavier perdeu pq ele sempre detesta que não tocam rock...e dessa vez tocou!
Teve limbo contest e o Sean ganhou. Como assim? Um coreano com aquele jingado todo?!
Saímos só qdo não teve mais jeito mesmo. 3 da manhã os caras mandaram td mundo embora...mas dps de td mundo gritando "we want more!", eles tocaram mais duas músicas. Dps disso não teve jeito...rua!
Ah bem no finzinho uns franceses que não eram do nosso grupo de internationals vieram falar comigo! Passei como sempre um ano explicando pq eu era brasileira com cara de japa!haha Ainda bem que esses franceses não tinham sotaque...se não, eu ia sair correndo!
Depois fomos comer o último poutine pós balada. Ai, vou sentir saudade disso!

Agora falta só uma prova de francês na 2a e fim de escola no Canada! Só tenho mais essa semana e a próxima aqui. Já tá me dando uma dor no coração...
Dia 29 vou pra Montreal com a Carol e fico na casa do Vitor até dia 2. Aí embarco pra Toronto e fico até dia 5. Dia 6, sábado eu chego em São Paulo. Dps mando em outro email os detalhes, se alguém quiser ir...hehe
Ah, mas já aviso que a partir do dia 6 quero ver meus amigos queridos ASAP!
Vai ser uma correria pq em menos de um mês estou viajando de novo. Ahhh sim...a maioria deve saber, mas quem não sabe, eu resolvi que vou voltar pro programa de Summer da Disney. Minha data de chegada em Orlando está pro dia 4 de junho...e o programa acaba dia 10 de novembro.

Bisous pour tous mes amis!

Cris Harumi às 5:09 PM.

Domingo, Abril 09, 2006

Essa semana é última semana de aula e depois...finals!
Semana passada entreguei meu trabalho de psychology. Aliás, Nathy, vc ainda quer ler? Posso te mandar o documento por email..
Tivemos também apresentação sobre o festival de Parintins pra aula de ESL. Foi bem legal. Eu pesquisei bastante sobre o tema pra montar a apresentação durante o spring break...descobri mta coisa que não sabia sobre o tal festival! Até a lenda do boi-bumbá eu não sabia..
Quinta-feira tive uma festa aqui no quarto. Comprei uma garrafa de Absolut e chamei meus amigos mais íntimos. Nem achei que fôssemos beber muito, mas bebemos...horrores! Tanguy, Pedro e Xavier trouxeram breja e foi quase tudo! Dia seguinte...ressaca!haha Bom, pelo menos da minha parte, Xavier e Tanguy!
Foi bem divertido...Tanguy trouxe o violão e os meninos cantaram as músicas compostas por eles. Aquelas já conhecidas que eu já devo ter mandado em emails passados como Chat bite, I wanna fuck, Buvons e tbm as novas tipo Bunda de saudade. Ok, ok, culpa minha! Semestre passado eu falava sobre bunda e saudade...e eles juntaram as duas coisas! O foda é que eu falo mto palavrão...aí eles pedem pra explicar e acabam formando frases mas que na verdade eu não falo! Tipo eu solto caralho o tempo todo! Mas é uma forma de dizer damnit! Só q qdo eu explico o que é tem q ser a explicação completa né...de tds os sentidos...aí dá nisso: gringos formando frases do tipo "eu tenho um caralho grande"!haha E eu ouço isso qse todo dia...:P
Sexta teve reunião na casa do Xavier que ele resolveu chamar de Cables and Noodles. Levamos nossos laptops e conectamos em rede pra compartilhar arquivos. O noodles foi por conta deles lá q fizeram miojão. O mais divertido foi depois a gente ficar vendo as fotos do soccer! A gt consegue ter ataque de riso das coisas mais idiotas como o tênis do David...bah, melhor nem explicar!!

Ultimamente tenho me sentido meio Dana, uma menina da Florida q eu conversava. Ela é bipolar e eu tenho me sentido assim. Uma hora estou num mood extremamente feliz e no minuto seguinte começo a pensar em vários problemas e várias coisas a serem resolvidas e entro em depressão!
Ahhhhhh quero me esconder num buraco q nem avestruz!aahaha

O delicioso foi receber a carta da Déia essa semana! AMEI. Demorou, mas chegou!
Ahhh e os videos que a Jubão gravou com algumas pessoas da ECA. Adorei tbm. Chorei vendo o video da Jubão..e o pior é que meus amigos gravaram isso!haha Jubão, vc tem q ver esse video..

Bom 3a que vem tem Lion. Os meninos vão se apresentar! Uma galerinha international no palco! E eles já disseram que vão tocar Bunda de Saudade. Medo!
Falando em música, 5a passada fui no concerto que o Daniel tocou. O projeto se chama Jazz Ensemble e é parte do Musique chez nous. Foram dois grupos de alunos de música tocando junto com o professor. Bem legal..
Hoje vou num concert com o coral. Parece que eles vão cantar músicas tema de filmes. It shall be fun.



Ai ai, menos de um mês pro fim. How sad is that?! Parece que foi ontem que cheguei aqui no campus...

Oh well, é a vida. Mas e agora? Brasil? Ou mais um tempo fora?

Cris Harumi às 6:09 PM.

Domingo, Março 26, 2006

Esse fim de semana até que também foi bem agitado!
5a feira passada foi a final do futebol intramural e o time internacional jogou. O problema é que aqui eles nem sabem jogar futebol...a quadra é improvisada na de basquete, com uma bola ridícula que parece de volei, os gols são de hockey e, aparentemente, não tem regra nenhuma!
Não tem fora, as paredes e as tabelas de basquete atrapalham, os canadenses jogam como se fosse hockey...batendo, empurrando e provocando. Os fucking canadians fizeram um gol mto cagado e acabaram ganhando. Deu mta raiva, pq foi mto injusto. Os meninos do nosso time jogam muuuito melhor. Brasileiro, franceses, espanhol...Pedro, Guillaume e Jean Baptiste, Sergio...eles sabem mto mais fazer um passe e driblar que os idiotas canadenses! O juiz era outro pamonha...canadense! Foi pro jogo todo arrumadinho, pronto pra balada e ficava fugindo da bola..
Teve um pênalti pra gente, várias mil faltas, provocação dos canadenses (e o Pedro até foi pra cima de um deles...ahhh se fosse pra perder mesmo que ele tivesse enfiado uma porrada naquele filho de uma puta!)
Nossa, xinguei horrores naquele jogo...os gringos entendem o famoso fdp! Ahhh cada falta cometida e não marcada era um "ei juiz vai tomar no cú"!
Enfim, no final fomos todos pro Lion beber...e inacreditavelmente Pedroca dançou e ficou até o fim!!! Só qdo os caras do pub começaram a lavar o chão que a gt saiu!haha
Sexta teve outra festa da na casa do Florian. Fomos eu, Daniel, Tomoya, Virginia e Tanguy...mas tava bem chatinha. Tinha pouca gente...vai ver pq, apesar de nenhum de nós saber, era aniversario de uma das francesas chatonas. Bom, pelo menos tinha comida e Daniel e Tomoya como bons caras de pau forraram seus respectivos estômagos.
Ficamos meia horinha e depois fomos pro Tim Horton's pegar iced capuccino! Aí Tomoya veio aqui em casa e ficou baixando Chopin e B'z (uma banda japonesa que ele amaaaa) pro meu computador!hehe
Falando em música, hoje fui em mais uma Musique Chez Nous. Os alunos de música da Bishop's sempre fazem apresentação e hoje meu amigo mexicano tocou e os músicos do Strata interpretaram umas músicas de composição dos alunos. Foi mto mto bom. Daniel toca maravilhosamente bem piano...ahhh e eu estou apaixonada por cello...e por Brahms! Uns alunos tocaram uma piece dele e achei absurdamente lindo.
O depto de música daqui é bem bom e estou achando legal ter essas novas experiências! Quando que eu iria num concerto assim, num domingo a tarde?
Ah e sem falar que todos os meus melhores amigos são músicas e a gt vive falando de música sempre que estamos juntos! Adoro as jam sessions com eles..
Ahhh e esses dias Xavier estava me contando que tem uns planos de se juntar a uma banda qdo voltar...ele tem um amigo baterista que tá em contato com uma banda q é famosinha no UK e talvez eles se juntem. Ah meu amigo vai ser famoso! Que orgulho!
E certeza que vcs vão conhecê-lo algum dia...todos eles querem mto ir pro Brasil, especialmente esse meu amigo francês baixista!! E eu vou ter que arranjar um jeito de ir pra França...
Falando em Xavier...ontem foi a vez dele de ficar bebiiiiinho! Cada um foi pra um canto ontem a noite, mas no final acabei eu na casa dele cuidando da bebedeira!
Tomoya e Daniel resolveram não sair, Tanguy nem sei o que acabou fazendo, Xavier foi com um povo francês comer sushi...eu, Pedro, Vy, Guillaume, Jean Baptiste e Sergio fomos pra uma keg party na Little Forks. A cereveja tava ruinzinha pq tava quente, mas pra eles isso é normal...eles nem ligam pra cerveja geladíssima que nem a gente..mas tudo bem..deu pra tooodo mundo ficar bem alegre e mais uma vez Pedroca dançando!!! Inacreditável isso!
A festa nem foi nada demais, mas eu me diverti...apesar de não gostar do Jean Baptiste, dei altas risadas com ele e os outros meninos..
Voltamos pra casa nem tão tarde (se bem que começamos a beber bem cedo...tipo 8h30 da noite!). Fui pra casa do Pedro pegar minhas coisas e encontro Xavier chegando altamente alcoolizado!hahah Tive que pegar um sal de frutas pra ele em casa e ficar lá cuidando da criança..
É o terceiro bêbado que eu tomo conta! Pelo menos dessa vez não tive que carregar ninguém até em casa!hahaha
Agora essa semana nada mais de festas...começam provas, entragas de trabalhos...aff, estou mto fudida!!!

Cris Harumi às 7:48 PM.

Quarta-feira, Março 22, 2006

Todo mundo fala que aqui só tem festa, mas não é verdade. A gente estuda muito. Seriously. Mais que na ECA, com certeza. Só que não tem muita graça contar detalhes de aulas, mas é interessante contar dos detalhes de festas..haha
Mas enfim, já que reclamam, onto classes we shall go. Quem recebe os emails da Vy deve ter lido sobre as aulas de Canadian Cultural Expression. Depois de ver sobre as two solitudes (french and english canadians) e sobre pinturas, vimos música, literatura e filme. Ele deu umas músicas ícones canadenses (e não! Não foi nem Celine Dion e nem Alanis!haha). Depois lemos umas histórias tipicamente canadenses (o pattern é nunca ter final feliz). Os filmes eram também tipicamente canadenses: Margaret's Museum e The Sweet Hereafter. Eu gostei mais do primeiro. A história se passa em Cape Breton na Nova Scotia, onde tem bastante minas, e a tragédia que envolve a cidade e a personagem principalse dá por causa da mina. O segundo filme é mais conhecido e ganhou prêmios em Cannes acho. O filme tem muitos flashbacks e é meio confuso de entender. Hoje fiz uma redação sobre a motivação dos personagens desse filme. Vou colar no fim do email. Assistam o filme e depois leiam a redação ;) Duvido que alguém o faça, mas ahhh...uma sugestão pros cinéfilos! Em português o título é O Futuro Radioso.
Semana passada teve outra mid-term de psicologia e nem foi tão difícil..ontem teve mid-tem de Canadian Cultural Expression sobre esses filmes, histórias e músicas. As perguntas estavam mais fáceis, mas não lembrava das letras das músicas..
Ahh, não lembro se comentei sobre a prova de Landscape and Cultural Geography que fiz há um tempinho atrás. Foi uma das provas mais difíceis que já fiz ever. Achei que tivesse me ferrado, mas hoje recebi de volta e nem fui tão mal. Os multiple choice me salvaram \o/


News? Tenho news. Sad news. Tomoya se mudou de prédio. Ahhh, tão triste não ter mais ele no Pollack. A amiga japa dele veio aqui visitá-lo e bem na semana que ela estava aqui algum idiota pôs fogo num papel e jogou debaixo da porta dele. Um absurdo...tem que ser algum canadense idiota..
Ele ficou com medo e acabou mudando pro Munster, láaaa do outro lado do campus :/ Tá, tá, são nem 5 minutos de distância, mas não posso mais ir lá conversar com ele de pijama!

Sexta passada assistimos Dirty Dancing 2 - Havana nights. Adoro Diego Luna! Mas achei o filme chatinho...Dirty Dancing é clássico e só o orginal é bom mesmo! Depois teve festa surpresa pra Solene, uma das francesas novas, lá na casa do Florian. Dessa vez a festa estava mto mega cheia, com pessoas x e uns internationals que nunca nem vão nas festas..ah, não gosto qdo está lotado assim..nem tinha corredor livre pra eu dançar :/ E tinha uns canadenses lá se embebedando e vomitando...bleh! Anyway, eu me diverti!
Sábado fomos pra uma Sugar Shack, onde se produz maple syrup. Apesar de ser all you can eat buffet, a comida nem era boa. Era quase tudo regado a maple syrup! Mas diacho...maple syrup é doce e pra se pôr em panquecas (ou como eu comia em Toronto, com torrada na manteiga e banana!). Lá não...era ovo, salsicha, tudo com syrup!
Depois fomos pra uma farm onde tinha umas vacas e uns cabritos. Os cabritinhos bebês eram bonitinhos :) Ahhh mas o lugar fedia mto..voltamos pra casa e tivemos que lavar as roupas..e o casaco da Vy ainda tá fedendo!
Domingo fomos pra Montreal assistir a parada de St Patrick's Day. O bus era de Humanities e estava cheeeeio de canadenses sem noção. Eles não mandaram email e ninguem sabia que horas que o bus ia sair! Xavier que avisou que tinha visto algum cartaz e achava q ia sair as 8h30. Qdo estávamos indo lá pro Plex pegar o bus, vimos os cartazes (q na noite anterior não estavam lá!) que era 8h!!! Ainda bem que o bus estava lá ainda...
Saímos...e parada! Ok, dps de um certo tempo de viagem é compreensível fazer uma parada, mas não qdo vc saiu apenas da universidade e não deu nem UM MINUTO de viagem!
Os idiotas pararam pra ir no Tim Horton's e um povo comprou booze. Como assim? E ainda ficaram zoando o cara que tinha comprado café e jornal. AHhhh não...call me square, mas pra mim é mto mais normal comprar café e jornal às 8h30 da manhã que bebida alcóolica. Tá..eu confesso que já fiquei bêbada às 9h da manhã, mas não fiquei criticando ninguém que estivesse lendo jornal!hahaha
Os meninas eram umas irritantes..elas têm um tom de voz mto fino e que é insuportável...todos os internationals se contorcem ouvindo as canadenses falando!
Uma delas levou um som e colocou o hit parade dos anos 90 e ficou de pé dançando e gritando. Xavier estava a ponto de matar um!
Depois do martírio que foi a viagem, foi um alívio chegar em Montreal. Assistimos a parada, que nem foi nada demais. Foi engraçado, com umas pessoas x, um povo tocando gaita de fole, uns mounties...
Comemos BK e levei Xavier e Vy pra dar uma volta em Old Montreal. Não vimos qse nada..só a Notre Dame de novo,marché Bonsecours, place Jacques Cartier...ah, e estavam filmando alguma coisa no porto. Fiz o Xavier ir perguntar e o cara disse lá o nome, algo como Blades of Glory pra Dreamworks.

Falando em cinema, o Centennial Theatre abriu de novo! Ele foi reformado...ah, quero ver como ele está! E já tem sessões de filmes programados...amanhã vamos ver Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Eu já assisti, mas quero ver de novo! Domingo vai passar Chicken Little e eu quero ver...preciso me atualizar, pq disseram que o filme é legal, mas eu não assisti..
Vão passar Memórias de uma Gueixa que eu assisti, mas non entendi lhufas do inglês daquelas pessoas..fotografia é bonita, mas não sei se foi pq me irritei pq não entendia nada, não gostei mto do filme. Ah e vão passar Mala Educación tbm. Esses dias mesmo estava comentando sobre esse filme com os mexicanos..esse filme é mto bom. Gael e Almodóvar, pra que mais?

Recadinhos:

Jú véia, mais véia que nunca: sua casadaaaaaaa! Felicitations! Arrase na honeymoon!
Rodd: mas eu ainda não entendi pq vc tava meio triste...bom, pelo menos vc ficou feliz por minha causa! adoooro! espera só eu voltar..
Léo: Thanks for all your support. Te amo, sem sexo.

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